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[Mrs. Edward Boynton (102 years old) smoking a cigar]

Item is a photograph showing a portrait of Matilda Boynton. Inscription on verso states "Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boynton 4195 Fraser St. Mrs. Boynton will be 103 years old Feb. 13th 1961. Born, Victoria, Tennessee. Ed. Boynton was born [Aurora] Ontario March 10th 1876. She still use no glasses, no hearing aid, does her own house work. Smokes the odd cigar and like a drink of Rum. Presented by Reuben Hamilton, Pioneer."

[Group of men and women assembled for a picnic on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Waterworks Company house in Stanley Park]

J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "End of Pipe Line Road. First Narrows. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris have lived here almost fifty years.; Picnic is on the edge of beach. Her Lord Stanley dedicated. Oppenheimer opened.; Stanley Park water works house. Pipe Line Road. Prospect point.; Old Indian [indigenous] clearing. Occupied Chief Haatsalanogh (Kitsilano) 1863.; See R.E. [Royal Engineers] survey this is Chaythoos. Here Hay-tulk was buried."

["The Fan Drill" presented at Hart's Opera House in aid of Alexandra Hospital]

Group portrait showing (left to right) standing: Nellie Boultbee (Mrs. J.O. Benwell), Miss Martin (Mrs. J.M. Buxton), Sydney Boultbee (Mrs. A.E. Phillips), Rose Townley (Mrs. Grange Holt), Elizabeth Alexander (Mrs. J.G.L. Abbott) and Jennie Johns; seated: Mrs. Storey; kneeling: Mrs. John G. Woods, Elizabeth McDougall (Mrs. Beetham), Miss McWhinney and Anne Bodwell

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